*Lab notebook sub-group / new user page sub-group / etc... how do we want to organize to help bill with going after bigger features?

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*Wikiomics (sri)

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**'''[[User:Reshma P. Shetty|Reshma]] 12:39, 6 September 2007 (EDT)''': There seems to be a lot of spam and a lot of registered spam accounts. We need to be careful regarding how we do the import to avoid both spam and spam accounts.

Alternative Welcome System and Home Pages: auto-generating content for new users to gently introduce them to OWW and promote good content structure habits. Following up from the discussion on the sc mailing list. Perhaps we should vote on how best to carry this out (i.e. do it all through the User page, create another 'homepage', project pages based off of this user-main page?) (Lucks and Vincent)

Lucks 19:35, 1 April 2007 (EDT): Has anyone published a PLoS paper? On the publishing front, I think it would be very interesting to 'wikify' a PLoS paper. A link could be given to the main PLoS paper for a standard, citeable piece of work. The wikified version of the paper could contain additional links to more detailed investigations, etc.

Should the Help page feature more prominently on the front page? Or the getting started tutorial sufficient? (Reshma)

In what ways could scientific contributions (e.g. protocols, SOPs, etc) be specifically encouraged to be shared through OWW? Are there ways of creating strong incentives for scientist to contribute in this aspect, in addition to providing the benefits of a collaborative platform through the OWW wiki?--Ranta 10:23, 3 April 2007 (EDT)

I would like all information processing for Polony sequencing to be repeatable--potentially with different parameters--through Freelogy.org. Investigators who use the Freelogy LIMS--specifically for Polony sequencing--should be able to generate publication quality figures directly from the LIMS. One condition of using Freelogy.org might be that all wet-protocols etc. *must* be published on OWW on publication. I'd love to talk more about how to make this work. --Await 08:08, 4 April 2007 (EDT)

Publishing

News and highlights

News and Highlights: This section could be organized/formatted to make it simpler (and less intimidating) to add a news story or highlight and rotate older items to the appropriate archives section. It would be nice to implement things in a way that highlights can be easily swapped without disrupting the cool-looking layout of the main page, as well as making it clear and easy how to archive and acess highlights that have been replaced. (jen)

Software

Duplicate accounts (entries with the same email address): 153 instances as of 2007-02-27 (Ilya)

people forget their passwords and don't use the password reset feature?

people forget their usernames? then we need "recover username" feature

Many invalid or blank email addresses. Problems: password reminders bounce, hard to contact those users: impossible to send notification that account was created, etc. Should we have an automated mechanism to confirm that every new user has a valid email address? (Ilya)

Next meeting

Virtual SC meeting date/time, not constrained by room reserve so is there a better time? (Jason)

Would be good for advertising, but also to provide substrate to our supporters out there - from maureen: "I'm not available for the meeting today but am following the discussion and will look at the meeting notes. Nice idea about the article. I'm trying hard to get the FA community on the wiki. Many are interested but just don't seem to understand it or how it could benefit them. This article will help."

DOI server - might be nice to be able to have people be able to request a DOI for a particular page that they want to reference in a paper, submit to some sort of PLoS One type repository, etc. We wouldn't need to have a DOI for every edit, but give users the option... this falls in the general category of making OWW more citable, and thus provide more avenues for garnering merit for contributing. (Jason)

Good opportunity here, anyone interested in thinking more about how to best do it?

9/14/06 Meeting

Jasonk 17:23, 4 September 2006 (EDT): Make it easy to make an OWW page compliant with postgenomic so it can get aggregated there.

Jasonk 17:28, 4 September 2006 (EDT): Statistics and survey guru. Might want to have someone who keeps an eye on trends on the site. this could range from surveys of people are using the site as was suggested previously, to looking over site analytics (which will come with new hosting service), or to just tracking site statistics (number of users, number of labs, etc). This sort of information could help the SC make more informed decisions.

Jasonk 08:56, 7 September 2006 (EDT): Well, this isn't a new topic or anything, but the having discussions is facilitated by threads (and stuff like 'post reply' button, etc). If we think the Mediawiki implementation is going to take to too long, we may consider getting some forum software to run on the site (it wouldn't have to perfectly integrate with the wiki for the short term) - i think hacing a "latest forum discussions" box similar to the one on the front page of protocols online would help OWW be a place to post your general biology questions. It's a good question why a Q&A section hasn't taken off on OWW, it may just be the community is too small, or it could be that the technical hurdles are too high.

Jasonk 08:59, 7 September 2006 (EDT):Firm up short term (6 month) SC goals